Sunday funnies

I think the M cartoon was made as a response to this.

The artist was sued for blasphemy for two stripes he made starring Jesus, one showing the prophet showing off his carpenter skills, the other having him hanging on the cross advertising "Pilatus' crucifiction cream for manly men"

Some old preachers wife apparently found them tasteless: "This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. This is much worse than the Mohammed drawings", she said.

Apparently old preachers wifes have no sense of humour.

Magnus, for some reason your link isn't working. At least not for me.
Otherwise I cannot comment on your post until I know the context, even though I think I can assume correctly what it is about.

On the primary cartoon, as long as I can assume that 'GUD' = 'GOD' then I think it hits on a familiar point that I often stress in arguments with my fundy family members and friends.
That's gotta be a tongue twister 'Fundy Family & Friends'

MYOB'.

It's not terribly on-topic - it's not about God, it's about intelligent design - but there's a funny sketch on this week's Now Show, from BBC radio 4. In the streaming media version it's from 16:19 to 18:36 (there's also a podcast and a downloadable version, although I'd guess that the times are a bit different).

The translation is probably obvious, but anyway...

We interrupt this broadcast for: Mads vs God.
... and the winner through walk-over is, once again, Mads Monsterman Eriksen!
Next week: Mads vs Zeus!

Yup, you're right I screwed up the link.

Here it is: http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2006/11/24/484019.html

It's in NOrwegian too but you get the point of it.

Translation of the first:

Jesus: Hi, People. Jesus Christ here. God's son, but also the friendly carpenter from Galilee!
In my job as Messiah it is important to have the right tools. Therefore I buy all my tools at "Onan's Bazaar & Hardware"!
God: AHEM!Didn't you stop by "Yehud's Carpentershak & Used Camels the other day"!
Jesus: Dad!!
God: The Holy Spirit is wondering why you hang around the Garden of Gethsemane with all these punks - and what is it with all this washing of feet?

Translation of the second:

Jesus:When you hang out all day, the sun and wind will dry your skin dry and make it pale and lifeless.
That's why I use: "Pilatus' Crucifiction Cream for Manly Men"!
A Unique formulae with Myrrh and Philistine foreskin makes the skin soft and smooth, and the patterend... Ah! Ah!
Nose is itching.
Roman: Cut! Cut!

"when you hang out all day!"

hahahahaha

so "mads" might mean "Man"?
pesky norwegians and yer furrin languages. speak Amerkin!
/jingo

A friend of mine worked in advertising industry and had great fun being creative with ads that would never pass. For instance:"If they used OurBrand nails, they would never have been able to take Jesus off the cross"

"Mads" is the usual Scandinavian form of Matthew.

I assume you've seen this Chick Tract parody...

"Who Will Be Eaten First"
http://people.emich.edu/twiggin/cthulhutract4vt.gif

And who could ever forget Patrick Farley's Apocamon

http://www.serializer.net/comics/apocamon.php?view=archive&chapter=1211…

John Galt (yes, that one) getting zapped with pain-venom alone makes it worth the read.

(Though despite Farley's heroic efforts, it still doesn't manage to be quite as unhinged as a genuine Chick tract.)

"Apparently old preachers wifes have no sense of humour."

Hey, if you spent forty years organizing church bake sales and potlucks while your husband was off snorting coke off a male hooker's ass, you'd probably have no sense of humor either.

Membrane, that last Chick tract did me in! And I thought I'd seen them all.

That'll cheer you right up.

Haploid Holidays, everyone!

As funnies go,

here's a fantastic show of how ID benefits us in search for new efficient algorithms, for example.

That doesn't look like Jack Chick artwork, Membrane -- it's much too refined. He must have other people doing it. However, the writing is genuine Jack Chick fever-dream paranoia.

I don't know why that is, but the new norwegian cartonists are great. I like Mads Eriksen for his social commentary, as here, but Frode Øverli's Pondus is genius in both manuscript and graphics.

"Mads" is the usual Scandinavian form of Matthew.

Not quite. Different languages makes names different too. It's "Mats" in swedish, for example.

Torbjörn Larsson: It's "Mats" in Swedish, for example.

Actually, I'm pretty sure "Mats" would be the more common form in Norway as well. I think of "Mads" as more of a Danish variant.

This must be my day for good Norwegian comics - coincidentally I just learned about Nemi (translated into English here), which is quite critical of religion and Christianity in particular on occasion.

Bah, I guess I don't know how to make a decent link. Well, the address is http://www.metro.co.uk/nemi

That doesn't look like Jack Chick artwork, Membrane -- it's much too refined. He must have other people doing it.

Probably Fred Carter, who's been Chick's "good artist" for a few decades (and who seems to have been heavily influenced by the hypermacho end of gay erotic art.)

Petter, thank you, I thought so too, but I couldn't back that up.

Magnus: Duh. There's a reason Helen Lovejoy on The Simpsons is a useful character - she's a stereotype.

I don't know why that is, but the new norwegian cartonists are great. I like Mads Eriksen for his social commentary, as here, but Frode Øverli's Pondus is genius in both manuscript and graphics.

"Mads" is the usual Scandinavian form of Matthew.

Not quite. Different languages makes names different too. It's "Mats" in swedish, for example.

Petter, thank you, I thought so too, but I couldn't back that up.